Dustin Dailey

Biography

Dailey joined the Demon Deacons' Sports Performance staff as the Director of Women's Basketball Sports Performance ahead of the 2022-23 season. In this role, he implements a 12-month strength and conditioning program focused on the development of each individual athlete on the Wake Forest women's basketball program. Since his arrival, Dailey has also been instrumental in modernizing the use of sport science with comprehensive data collection/analysis and monitoring systems to optimize decision-making for women's basketball student-athlete development and performance. During Dailey’s first season working with the program, the Deacs tied the most since the 2011-12 season, defeated four NCAA Tournament teams including wins over two Elite Eight teams and grabbed 12 wins at home, the fourth-highest total in program history. Dailey comes to Winston-Salem from Georgetown where he has worked with both the football and men’s lacrosse programs for the Hoyas. He has utilized both Polar Team Pro (Football) and Catapult (Lacrosse) technology to manage player work loads in practice as well as design speed and conditioning sessions. Prior to his time with the Hoyas, he served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach at St. Leo for two year leading all aspects of strength and conditioning for 10 varsity athletic teams, focusing on Women’s Basketball as well as Men’s Soccer, Women’s Soccer, Men’s Lacrosse, Women’s Lacrosse, Men’s Swimming & Diving, Women’s Swimming & Diving, Men’s Tenn